Energy Efficiency & Green IT

Virtualisation saves energy by eliminating server sprawl and underutilisation. Customers reduce their energy costs and consumption by up to 80% through virtualisation. Most servers and desktops today are in use only 5-15% of the time they are powered on, yet most x86 hardware consumes 60-90% of the normal workload power even when idle.

The Green Datacentre

Virtualisation provides the only strategy capable of delivering substantial efficiency gains as organisations move toward the green data centre.

With typical consolidation ratios of between 7 and 15, utility costs within the data centre can be dramatically reduced. When combined with an intelligent management layer virtualisation technology is able to deliver substantial benefits to both the organisation bottom line, and the environment.

VMware virtualisation has advanced resource and memory management features that enable consolidation ratios of 15:1 or more which increase hardware utilisation to as much as 85%. Once virtualised, a feature of VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) called Distributed Power Management (DPM) monitors utilisation across the datacentre and intelligently powers off unneeded physical servers without impacting applications and users. With VMware, virtualisation customers can dramatically reduce energy consumption without sacrificing reliability or service levels.

Reduce the energy demands of your datacentre through server consolidation and dynamic management of computer assets across a pool of servers.

• Reduce energy costs by up to 80%
• Power down servers without affecting applications or users
• Green your datacentre while decreasing costs and improving service levels